We lost a very good Democrat and nobody knew: An Exceptional Career In Personnel, Labor Relations

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-exlife0708.artjul08,0,5189166.story

You need to read the entire story.

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By ANNE M. HAMILTON | Special to The Courant
July 8, 2007

Sandra G. Biloon, 76, of West Hartford, died June 1.

Sandra Biloon was an expert in labor relations and human resources, an intellectual who loved music, art and travel.

She was an only child who was born in London, where her father, Morris Green, was a furrier. The family soon moved to New York. She considered only two colleges - Swarthmore and Radcliffe, and chose Radcliffe.

Biloon was petite and studious, with long black hair and a serious demeanor. She majored in government and wrote her senior thesis on Iran, the royal family and the oil industry - showing an early insight into future world problems. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and married a Harvard student, Harold Biloon, before graduation in 1951.

Harold Biloon went to Duke for law school but returned to Connecticut to practice law in Hartford. Sandra Biloon went to work at G. Fox & Co. as a training director. The comprehensive weeklong program for new employees was nationally known, said Eunice Kelly, who worked with her at the department store.

The job also included executive training as well as writing brochures and running programs for senior employees, and it gave her a start in personnel work.

FULL story at link.

[ShortnFiery]

1. R.I.P. Sandra G. Biloon, Labor, Human Rights and Community Service Activist

Thanks Steve Omaha for permitting us a glimpse in the life of a petite but largely influential labor and human Rights relations expert, and tireless servant to numerous community projects. I will print off this article and present it to my young daughter. There's far too few women role models outlined in the M$M, so those of us who wish to raise confident and independent daughters must look to numerous sources. Her efforts with running programs for senior employees is my personal favorite because far too often, it seems that our elderly in America are all but forgotten. Thanks again for posting. :hi:

[Omaha Steve]

3. Two women of labor role models from the DU labor forum history posts this weekend

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=367

For a young lady with a future in front of her.

July 7th, in 1903, Mother Jones began “The March of the Mill Children. ” Accompanied part of the way by children, she walked from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island to protest the plight of child laborers. One of her demands: reduce the childrens’ work week to 55 hours.

July 08
First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842
Labor organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born on Staten Island, NY. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in “The Jungle” - 1862

[ShortnFiery]

4. Thank-you I'm going to put the Labor Forum on my active list.

I still crack open my copy of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair so it's awesome news regarding the efforts of Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor working undercover in meat packing plants. Few people would have the courage to accomplish this feat. :scared:

[Virginia Dare]

2. RIP Ms. Biloon, sounds like a truly great lady, what a loss...n/t

[burrowowl]

5. RIP Sandra Biloon!

Long live LABOR!
Down with CORPORATISTS!